Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-25
Sheep 1nterest.
ANOTHER ASSAULT,

ANOTHER ASSAULT.
The summary of imports for the eleven
months ending November 80, 1856 (rrcas-
tiry Document No. 0lO) gives these fig
lrcs for imports of wool and its products
in that time:
Dress Goods ................ Ga,9369t3 sqr. yds.
Nyoocn and worstcd cloths, 7,9jj,94 pounds.
arms (nearly all worstcd
yarns .................... 4,Ill9l9
Rags, shOddy. waste, etc.. 3,gG},GH g
lOthing WOOl...........,... 'l2N>,Uul
ombing wool.......... 9,li6Sl1
Carpet wool (and other sim
Observation-Disclosures. H,0aj,1Sj
1t may be said of these figures for
waste, that they are 100000 lbs. beyond
hose of the previous year, and the i'll
-rcase is largely or entirely due to the
appearance Of the new article called for
utiable purposes ''ring waste" 1t must
PC further stated that of the woods which
he department so guardcdly puts through
he custom houses Us ''carpet and other
imilar wools." 10,00OO00 lbs. (some say
{, 200, 900 pounds,) 90 to machinery that
must otherwise take domestic wool.
TO see just what all this means to the
- ~ Wv
rcasy wool, and we will omit entirely
le 10,000,0O0 square yards of dress
Gods. Let them represent what might
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Gus articles of very great taste and
80 VIM, -
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oolcn and worstcd cloths.......sny 22,Ooo,oo0
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; WASH. " io@o0'O00
othing wool '....'''.'....'..''.. $3'C0o goo goo
rpct and similar. 49,. iO,OOOOOO
This makes the total for eleven months
900, 900 lbs. wool in the grease; or, we
ay say, and that without counting the
ID month. that the American wool clip
1856 (about 430,OOO.O00 lbS.) met
lcn 1t came to market to the machinery
lich alone could consume it-eXpOrt
inc impoSsible-a quantity of foreign
pol in some shape equal to 1901 900
+. of wool in the grease. And SOME
les it found the machinery idle, be
use the foreign wool was already ahead
it in the market, as goods.
rhe grower will take notice that near
one-half of this l0O. 900. 900 lbs. came in
goods under the first three heads. and
put onc-fourth is in a form first
1T in any considerable quantity since
tariff ''tinkcring of 'S3-that is. as
|rsted yarns and ring waste" Let him
ice further that this last (Which is
rings" by the failure. intentional
otherwise. to finish the spinning oper-
pm is competitor whose work last
IT. was done largely in the last seven
eight months. No man dare prophcSy
at can be laid down here in a full year,
rknW under duty of Zoe Il pound,
ich is all it pays,
md now the encouragement has sub
ted to the secretary of the treasury
opin ion that ''topS" should come i'm AT
lie rate of duty as secured wool. and it
,orth while to see what this will mean.
BIS are wool that has been secured, and
IN further cleaned or improved in con-
on by passing through the cards and
,bs. If is fins sunerior TO secured
.I... Int. ,
;, III ''io matter u 0oi,'''','"' ''"' ''"'
labor anu expense adued, when arc
icient reasons for imposing higher
of dirty Than that unon scoured wool
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Ut lio" wiz 'iic "coi9'o' II "'ol''V" a.
rule OF the department Affect tho
bl-grower? There are in this country
countino tbe combs unon Garnet stocl;